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UP FRONTMonday 11 April 2016
Officials:
Brussels cell planned 2nd France attack
RAPHAEL SATTER quent explosion at Brussels’ the Brussels attacks. One
Maelbeek subway station of them, Mohamed Abrini,
RAF CASERT killed another 16 people has also been charged in
the same morning. Investi- relation to the Paris attacks,
Associated Press gators have found links be- prosecutors said.
tween the cell behind those Abrini has acknowledged
BRUSSELS (AP) — The ex- attacks and the group that being the “man in the hat”
killed 130 people in Paris on spotted alongside the two
tremists who struck Brussels Nov. 13. suicide bombers who blew
Sunday’s statement pro- themselves up at Brussels
last month and killed 32 vides confirmation of what Airport, officials said. Sur-
many had suspected: the veillance footage has also
people initially planned to series of raids and arrests in placed him in the convoy
the week leading up to the with the attackers who
launch a second assault on Brussels attacks — includ- headed to Paris ahead of
ing the capture of key Paris the Nov. 13 massacre.
France in the wake of the attacks fugitive Salah Ab- Abrini was a childhood U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, talks with Britain’s For-
deslam — pushed the killers friend of Brussels broth- eign Secretary Philip Hammond, right, as they arrive to partici-
November attacks in Paris, to action. ers Salah and Brahim Ab- pate in the first working session of the G7 foreign minister meet-
ings in Hiroshima, Japan April 10, 2016. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)
authorities said Sunday.
5 things to know about G-7
But the perpetrators were foreign ministers’ meeting
“surprised by the speed of
the progress in the ongo-
ing investigation” and de-
cided to rush an attack on
Brussels instead of going
back to France, the Bel- MARI YAMAGUCHI also hopes the ministers will
Associated Press issue a separate “Hiroshima
gian federal prosecutor’s HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — declaration” on nuclear non-
Foreign ministers from the proliferation, in addition to
Police secure an area during a house search in the Etterbeek neighborhood in Brussels on Satur- Group of Seven industrialized the usual communique.
countries are meeting in the ON THE AGENDA: Following
day April 9, 2016. The arrest Friday of six men suspected of links to the Brussels bombings, includ- western Japanese city of Hi- the recent attacks in Belgium,
roshima on Sunday and Mon- the ministers condemned
ing the last known fugitive in last year’s Paris attacks, raised new questions about the extent of the day. Germany’s Frank-Walter terrorism and violent extrem-
Steinmeier arrived late due ism, and agreed that the G-7
Islamic State cell believed to have carried out the intertwined attacks that left 162 people dead to aircraft problems at depar- countries should take lead-
ture and missed most of the ership in stepping up global
in two countries. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) first day’s sessions. effort against such attacks.
Five things to know about the Also high on the agenda were
office said in a statement. A laptop seized from a deslam, both suspects in annual gathering of the top nuclear nonproliferation, in-
It didn’t provide any details garbage can on a street the Paris attacks, and he diplomats from Britain, Can- cluding North Korea’s recent
on the initial French plot or outside the suicide bomb- had ties to Abdelhamid ada, France, Germany, Italy, rocket and missile launches,
its targets. ers last known address Abbaoud, the Paris attack- Japan and the United States: maritime security amid Chi-
Both France and Belgium contained a message pur- ers’ ringleader who died WHY HIROSHIMA: Japan na’s assertive posture in the
warned it was no time to portedly from Ibrahim El in a French police raid hopes to send a message of East and South China seas, as
relax despite the recent Bakraoui, who blew himself shortly afterward. Brahim nonproliferation and peace. well as the Middle East and
spate of arrests. up in the airport attack, Abdeslam blew himself up Once all but annihilated by a Ukraine.
“It’s fresh proof of the very that indicated he was ex- in the Paris bombings while U.S. atomic bomb, Hiroshima RUSSIA ABSENT: A key play-
real threat that weighs on pecting to be arrested im- Salah Abdeslam was ar- has risen back as a symbol of er not in the room is Russia.
all of Europe, and on France minently following the ar- rested in Brussels on March peace and nuclear disarma- The eighth member of what
in particular,” French Prime rest of Abdeslam. 18 — four days before the ment. It’s also the hometown used to be the G-8 has been
Minister Manuel Valls said. In it, prosecutors said El attacks there — after a of host Foreign Minister Fu- excluded since last year be-
Belgian Justice Minister Bakraoui wrote that he felt four-month manhunt. mio Kishida. Hiroshima can cause of its support for sepa-
Koen Geens said it amount- “in a hurry,” and “no longer Geens insisted people also entertain the guests with ratist rebels in Ukraine. Rus-
ed to “a dirty war” when knowing what to do,” and should not get their hopes its homegrown oysters, re- sia’s foreign minister is due to
more attacks could be ex- “being hunted from every- up too much. puted to be Japan’s best, and visit Tokyo to meet Japanese
pected in Belgium, France where” — all indications “We can hope that the cell the picturesque Miyajima counterpart Kishida later in
or beyond. they might have looked for around Abdeslam and Ab- shrine by the sea. the week, a possible prelude
“Once the intention is a speedier attack than ini- baoud is just about caught Kishida told Sunday’s recep- to a visit by Japanese Prime
there, the place of execu- tially planned. but we should not believe tion that he hoped the expe- Minister Shinzo Abe to Russia
tion is rather secondary,” Belgian police detained it. In any case we need to rience would help the visiting in May. Other G-7 countries
Geens told VRT network. “If four men in Brussels raids remain very alert and new ministers to “learn how Hiro- might not welcome such a
we secure one place, an- over the weekend who cells can pop up at any shima has risen back from the trip.
other target opens up.” were charged with partici- moment. The facts have atomic bombings to become SUMMIT OPENER: The for-
Two suicide bombers killed pating in “terrorist murders” already taught us that,” the symbol of peace and eign ministers’ meeting is the
16 people at Brussels Air- and the “activities of a ter- Geens said. hope.” first of 10 ministerial meet-
port on March 22. A subse- rorist group” in relation to PEACE MEMORIAL: The for- ings including finance, ener-
eign ministers will honor the gy, environment and agricul-
dead at the Hiroshima Peace ture, held across the country
Park and visit the nearby ahead of the G-7 leader’s
Atomic Bomb Museum on summit on May 26-27 in the
Monday, a dream come true coastal city of Shima in cen-
for many surviving victims, tral Japan, near Ise, home to
who have for decades cam- a Shinto shrine known as the
paigned to bring leaders of nation’s most sacred with
nuclear states to Hiroshima links to the Emperor.
to see the damage. Japan
